This photo was taken near the pinnacle of Little Pisgah Mountain looking east into the conservation easement. The area in Fairview owned by the MacKay Family will remain protected from development.

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Elizabeth MacKay Fisher and her three brothers spent their early adult summers hiking, camping, picnicking and generally drinking in the grandeur of Little Pisgah Mountain in southeastern Buncombe County.

For flatlanders who lived in Ocala, Fla., the yearly summer visits to their Western North Carolina family property were a slice of paradise. After all these years, Fisher and her brothers and their families decided the land needed to remain forever as in their memories and in its wild state. Late last year they placed 474 acres in a conservation easement valued at $1.5 million with the ...